Today I went to the Kendamondays event at ULA Berlin, a Japanese fish restaurant with a cool basement for playing kendama in, now called "The Doujo" for event purposes. I met Kentaro Akai, Sachi Tamiya, Justin of Kendama TPC (of early Bitter Beans fame, the Taiwanese kendama contingency!), along with long time Seattle kendama chap Zack Winters, who has just moved to Berlin. We had a great bunker-jam until late in the evening. I learned the string trick necessary for Infinite Revolvers and watched Justin bang (Pull-up) Double Whirlwind Double Reverse Whirlwind Spikes like it wasn't no thing. The Taiwanese guys seemed both happy and a bit perplexed that my bike is almost entirely plastered in Kendama TPC stickers. Surely too much kendama awesomeness to fit into eight hours.

... practiced #5 of Outlink 2015. I was so close once, but didn't succeed. I can do everything until Big Cup and I can nudge the Bird back to Big Cup. But that part inbetween ...However, I also find spiking after the Hoop quite difficult - see Void's video

Keep going, man, you can do it! Really exaggerate the knees on the hop up to Bird, and you'll be alright. Niemals aufgeben!*

Had a surprise session with Kendama Till today, was a brilliantly sunny day and the tricks were flowing: my first ever Lunar Half Rover and Oppose Lunar Half Rover, Clifftop the World, and some other nice stuff I might save for the Collab Vid. Happy days!

... I improved further on my birds - from a hanging tama only. So far I succeded twice with Tomeken > Big Cup > Bird > Nudge to Big Cup.Still not able to do the whole Outlink #5 sequence. And the Hoop is sloppy most of the time. Two more days to go.But at least my birds get much better